Reality Check (week 3) Solutions:

Question #1:

#!/bin/bash

# ./listing.bash
# Author: Murray Saul
# e-mail: murray.saul@senecac.on.ca
# Date: May 21, 2010
#
# Purpose: To demonstrate reality check question

ls ~/info/listing.txt > /dev/null 2> /dev/null && echo "File exists" || (mkdir ~/info 2> /dev/null;ls ~ > ~/info/listing.txt; echo "listing has been saved in: ~/info/listing.txt")


Question #2:

#!/bin/bash

# ./listing2.bash
# Author: Murray Saul
# e-mail: murray.saul@senecac.on.ca
# Date: May 21, 2010
#
# Purpose: To demonstrate reality check question
#          Modification of question #1 (use variables)

read -p "Please enter a file pathname: " filePathName


ls ~/info/$filePathName > /dev/null 2> /dev/null && echo "File exists" || (mkdir ~/info 2> /dev/null;ls ~ > ~/info/$filePathName; echo "listing has been saved in: ~/info/$filePathName")